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/ICTURESQUE  San  Antonio,  located  on  a  plateau  along  both  banks  of  the  San  Antonio 
River — one  hundred  and  fifty  miles  from  the  Gulf  of  Mexico — is  the  county  seat  of  Bexar 
County  and  the  largest  city  in  Texas,  having  now  a  population  estimated  at  nearly 
100,000.  San  Antonio  was  founded  as  a  Spanish  settlement  in  1716  by  Don  Domingo 
Ramon,  and  in  spite  of  the  many  changes  and  the  lapse  of  time,  the  modern  city  still 
preserves  many  Spanish  characteristics.  The  original  settlement  grew  rapidly  in  power 
and  importance  and  so  long  as  Texas  remained  a  Spanish  and  Mexican  province,  San  Antonio  was  the 
capital  for  most  of  the  time  and  always  a  leading  military  station.  This  latter  distinction  has  never  been 
surrendered. 

It  was  here  that  the  Franciscan  Mission  of  San  Antonio  de  Valero  was  established  in  1722  and,  during 
the  desperate  struggle  for  Texan  independence,  it  was  here  in  the  defence  of  the  Alamo — yet  standing- 
thai  Crockett  and  his  brave  companions  died  to  a  man  like  the  Spartans  at  Thermopylae. 

The  modern  city  of  San  Antonio  is  the  home  of  a  refined,  hospitable  and  cosmopolitan  people.  It  is 
a  prominent  cotton  market  and  the  headquarters  for  a  territory  where  market  gardening  is  carried  on  in 
an  immense  scale — all  in  all  a  busy  metropolis  containing  over  two  hundred  manufacturing  establish- 
ments, with  ample  railroad  facilities,  miles  of  well-built  electric  lines,  and  a  park  system  including  over 
twenty  parks  and  plazas  renowned  for  exquisite  beauty,  many  of  which  have  been  preserved  intact  from 
the  old  Spanish  time. 

San  Antonio  is  a  joy  to  the  traveler.  The  quaint  and  artistic  architecture  of  the  city  is  a  relief  from 
the  sameness  of  the  ordinary  American  city.  It  will  ever  be  a  notable  spot  from  its  deeply  interesting 
historical  associations — and  it  is  equally  evident — by  virtue  of  its  superb  location — that  San  Antonio  is 
destined  to  be  a  commercial  metropolis  of  the  first  magnitude. 

Published  by  the  L.  H.  NELSON  CO.,  "Largest  Publishers  Souvenir  View  Books  in  the  World,"  Portland,  Maine,  U.  S.  A. 

Copyright,  1907,  by  L.  H.  Nelson  Co.,  Vortland,  Me. 


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